Polisario Front

The Polisario Front, Frente Polisario, FRELISARIO or simply POLISARIO, from the Spanish abbreviation of Frente Popular de Liberación de Saguía el Hamra y Río de Oro ("Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el-Hamra and Río de Oro" Arabic:الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير ساقية الحمراء و وادي الذهب‎Al-Jabhat Al-Sha'abiyah Li-Tahrir Saqiya Al-Hamra'a wa Wadi Al-Dhahab), is a Sahrawi rebel national liberation movement aiming to end Moroccan presence in the Western Sahara. It is an observer member of the Socialist International.

The Polisario Front is outlawed in the parts of Western Sahara under Moroccan control, and it is illegal to raise its party flag (often called the Sahrawi flag) there.

History

Beginnings

After attempting in vain to gain backing from several Arab governments, including both Algeria and Morocco, but only drawing faint notices of support from Libya and Mauritania, the movement eventually relocated to Spanish-controlled Western Sahara to start an armed rebellion.

Polisario Front

The Polisario Front, Frente Polisario, FRELISARIO or simply POLISARIO, from the Spanish abbreviation of Frente Popular de Liberación de Saguía el Hamra y Río de Oro ("Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el-Hamra and Río de Oro" Arabic:الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير ساقية الحمراء و وادي الذهب‎Al-Jabhat Al-Sha'abiyah Li-Tahrir Saqiya Al-Hamra'a wa Wadi Al-Dhahab), is a Sahrawi rebel national liberation movement aiming to end Moroccan presence in the Western Sahara. It is an observer member of the Socialist International.

The Polisario Front is outlawed in the parts of Western Sahara under Moroccan control, and it is illegal to raise its party flag (often called the Sahrawi flag) there.

History

Beginnings

After attempting in vain to gain backing from several Arab governments, including both Algeria and Morocco, but only drawing faint notices of support from Libya and Mauritania, the movement eventually relocated to Spanish-controlled Western Sahara to start an armed rebellion.

On&nbsp;December 5, representatives of the Moroccan kingdom sat down with their counterparts in the PolisarioFront to see if some kind of solution could be reached in one of the world’s longest running and most overlooked humanitarian tragedies; the generations old dispute over ......

Following the administrative transfer of this territory to Morocco, sanctioned by the Madrid Accords, a 15 year war broke out between the kingdom and the PolisarioFront, an armed group backed by the government of neighboring Algeria and the Soviet Bloc... representatives are working to broker a solution between Morocco and the PolisarioFront....

Sisulu said her country is pleased that Morocco and the PolisarioFront have been able to meet to seek a political solution to the conflict ... "It is our hope that these negotiations are a step in the right direction towards reviving the long-stalled talks between the PolisarioFront and Morocco," she said....